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Garth’s Store

I’m just one or two years and a couple of changes behind you “Fountain Of Sorrow” Jackson Browne Apple discontinues the iPod and Garth Brooks puts up an MP3 selling site, believing it’s about the deal, unaware that no one wants gasoline in an electric world. Well, we haven’t quite hit that point in automobiles, […]

Jamestown Revival At Way Over Yonder

They were playing “Born On The Bayou.” I’ve been in a funk, trying to figure this crazy, messed up world out, or rather my place in it. You grow up too young to participate and then suddenly you’re too old to matter, held back by not only others’ judgment of you but the knowledge that […]

Thom Yorke’s BitTorrent Album

The enemy is obscurity. Atoms For Peace didn’t do so well the second time around, what makes Thom Yorke think people are waiting for his new solo album, never mind interested in paying for it? There seems to be a canard amongst the creative class that the world is against them, that the digerati/techies want […]

Ignorance

1. If you’ve got a contract and you’re using an aged handset, the joke’s on you. Built into every cellphone contract is payment for the device. Just like there’s no such thing as a free lunch, there’s no such thing as a free cellphone. Get a new one every two years. And now, if you’re […]